Newark Founder's Statue in Fairmount Cemetery

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The Settlers' Monument in Fairmount Cemetery is 22 feet high. It stands on a granite base 8 feet square. The 7-foot high figure of the Puritan, manufactured in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is a metal structure painted gray to give it the appearance of stone. Some say the figure represents Robert Treat, leader of the first group of settlers.

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THE LANDING AT NEWARK, MAY, 1666.
..The first of the Milfordites to set foot on Newark shore was Elizabeth Swaine, a fair young girl in her.. Captain Samuel Swaine, and the affianced bride of Josiah Ward, whose gallantry secured for her the honor..

The Settlers' Monument is an artist's version of the arrival of the first settlers from Milford, Connecticut, to the future Newark, led by Robert Treat in May 1666. The monument was erected at the Fairmount Cemetery in 1889, when these early settlers' bodies were moved from the old Burying Ground opposite the old First Presbyterian Church on Broad Street. Newark was initially called New Milford for Milford, Connecticut. The settlers also came from Guilford and Branford, Connecticut.
There were two other monuments, created by Gutzon Borglum, erected in downtown Newark in 1916, commemorating the Founders of the city. The May 1666 Landing in Newark is depicted in a woodcut from the frontispiece of The History of Newark by Joseph Atkinson.

{From Images of America, Newark Thanks to: Glenn G. Geisheimer}